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LSO/Pascal review – less is more with brand new Boulez homages

World premieres by Olga Neuwirth, Rafael Marina Arcaro and Lara Agar celebrated Pierre Boulez’s centenary, with Maxime Pascal a hyper-expressive conductor

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; CBSO/ Volkov; Jenůfa – review

Simon Rattle celebrates his big birthday with two striking world premieres; the sea meets surrealism in Satie’s centenary year. Plus, intense Janáček and a rousing Covent Garden welcome

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Rattle review – old, new, borrowed and Boulez for conductor’s birthday concerts

World premieres by George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage were centrepieces of two concerts celebrating Rattle’s 70th, but it was symphonies – Brahms and Vaughan Williams – that were the high points

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Boulez, Benjamin & Brahms at the Barbican review: Simon Rattle brought new light to familiar works

5/5 The LSO marked Boulez's centenary and the great conductor’s birthday with a subtle, understated belebration

Evening Standard

‘He jolted us out of our comfort zone’: Antonio Pappano, Martyn Brabbins and more on Pierre Boulez

Ahead of his centenary celebrations, composers, conductors and performers explain why the French iconoclast’s music is simply spellbinding

The Guardian - UK

Alexander Goehr obituary

Influential composer of instrumental and orchestral works who was a music producer for the BBC and professor at Cambridge

The Guardian - UK

Jaap van Zweden ending tenure as New York Philharmonic music director after 6 seasons

Jaap van Zweden is ending his tenure as the New York Philharmonic music director after six seasons, the orchestra’s shortest since Pierre Boulez from 1971-77

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Peter Eötvös obituary

Hungarian conductor of modernist music who went on to compose operas with texts ranging from Three Sisters to Angels in America

The Guardian - UK

George Newson obituary

Other lives: Avant garde composer who produced some of the first British electronic music

The Guardian - UK

Bartók: The Wooden Prince album review – very fine recording of rarely heard fairytale ballet

Bartók revised his ‘pantomime ballet’ many times; the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra’s new disc is the first ever recording of its final version

The Guardian - UK

David Lumsdaine obituary

Australian composer long resident in Britain whose music uses complex means to produce a direct result

The Guardian - UK

Who Has The Most Grammys? List Of Top Artists With Most Award Wins

Explore the details of Grammy winners with the highest number of wins in history.

International Business Times

Let it all out! Tears for Fears inspire ‘utopian’ dance show

Emmanuel Gat explains why it’s easier to choreograph to Pierre Boulez than pop music and how his dancers perform ‘with a question mark not an exclamation mark’

The Guardian - UK

Appreciation: Composers are often revered but rarely beloved. Kaija Saariaho was both

LOS ANGELES — This year's Ojai Festival began Thursday night with a tribute to Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who died earlier this month. For Ojai, Steven Schick performed an ethereal percussion piece inspired by the moss garden at the Kyoto temple Saiho-ji, which is the greenest place I have…

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Nicholas Snowman obituary

Arts administrator who founded the London Sinfonietta and led the Southbank Centre and Glyndebourne

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No one can match the BBC Singers. Axing them is an act of vandalism

The ensemble is lauded across the classical world. The BBC Singers inspire, educate and entertain, and their closure matters to us all. Here is why

Evening Standard

Who are the top Grammy winners of all time after Beyonce breaks record?

The singing superstar overtakes British-Hungarian conductor Georg Solti as the most decorated artist in Grammys history

The Independent UK

Ned Rorem, prize-winning composer and writer, dies at 99

Composer Ned Rorem has died at 99

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Sam Byers: ‘JM Coetzee made me vegetarian’

The novelist on being inspired by the Beats, discovering Chekhov, and taking notes from Pierre Boulez

Los Angeles Times

The world lost 6 revolutionary composers within a year. How LA, and only LA, is paying tribute

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

The Guardian - UK

Sir Harrison Birtwistle obituary

Composer renowned as a great modernist whose music is imbued with stubborn power and a sense of unreachable mystery

Radio France Internationale

Punk legend Iggy Pop and Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain win Polar Prize

US punk icon Iggy Pop and the French contemporary music Ensemble intercontemporain founded in 1976 by Pierre Boulez have won Sweden's Polar Music Prize.

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